Chirp!:

Friday, July 28, 2006

Our plans this weekend: rid ourselves of Ivy, some other small tidy-up stuff, and mow lawn.

So we get an hour into our yard-cleaning this morning and realise our handsaw is not going to cut the mustard. AB gets on the phone to a guy he knows. Said guy is here within the hour with an offsider, 3 chainsaws and a mobile mulcher.

He cuts down TEN trees ( and we've still got plenty ). Most of the trees he labels as "weeds", which doesn't surprise us.
"Do you like this ?" he asks of one tree ( tree 11 actually, I forgot that one ! ).
"No" I reply. "It's ugly, what is it ?".

"Junk", he replies and rips into it. Ok.

We also discover the ivy was disguising a fence about to fall down. Chainsaw man recommends not being cheap, and fixing it before we think about planting new stuff. He reckons $2.5k to a rip out and re-install. *Sigh* Hopefully we have nice neighbours.

So now A's enthusing about re-doing the backyard for Xmas - ie: building the decking, getting a bobcat in to dig out the crap and re-level and put down new turf. The works.

It's sort of funny, I guess. I wonder what other 'new' project we can conceive and then subsequently dump as another one arises ? Which will be finished first ?

As the weather warms, that front fireplace is looking less and less interesting ;)